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November 15, 2012
: Updated: November 16, 2012 12:00am

The odds were excellent that a San Antonio musician would win at the 13th annual Latin Grammy Awards on Thursday.

Four of the five nominees in the Tejano category were S.A. music acts: Joe Posada, Jay Perez, Los Hermanos Farias and Los DesperodoZ. Houston-based Avizo was also nominated.

Posada took the prize for “Algo Esta Pasando,” a jazzy Tejano effort, issued on his label Baby Dude Records. The saxophonist had previously been nominated nine times — for Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards.

“I finally hit the home run,” said Posada, who did not attend Thursday's awards presentation in Las Vegas. “It's sweeter because it's an all-original CD. I wrote all the tunes.”

“Algo Esta Pasando” was produced by Grammy-winning engineer- producer Gilbert Velasquez. The 10-song album was released this spring.

Tejano star

has heart attack

Sunny Ozuna, the San Antonio singer whose hit “Talk to Me” with the Sunglows reached the national charts in the 1960s, suffered a mild heart attack Wednesday morning.

According to close friend Joe Bravo, Ozuna had a coronary stent inserted Thursday at a local hospital.

Ozuna, 68, posted a message on Facebook on Thursday afternoon: “To all my fans, thank you for all your prayers and good wishes, just having regular maintenance done, all is well and I am fine.”

Ozuna was a teenager at Burbank High School in 1962 when the Sunglows recorded “Talk to Me.” The regional hit made it onto the national charts the following year thanks to Houston record producer Huey Meaux, who later guided the early career of the Sir Douglas Quintet.

Ozuna was among the first Mexican American performers to appear on Dick Clark's “American Bandstand.”

In the 1970s and beyond, Ozuna found further success as a Tejano singer.

He won a Grammy Award in 2001 as a member of the supergroup the Legends for the album “¿Que Es Musica Tejana?” in the Tejano category.